By Salvador HernandezLos Angeles TimesATHERTON, Calif. — Next time burglars hit a house in Atherton, they may be walking into a trap and a quick trip to jail.Faced with an uptick in residential burglaries, police in the wealthy Northern California town decided this year to...
By David KromanThe Seattle TimesSEATTLE — In an effort to boost recruitment to the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle City Council approved new legislation Tuesday that would massage the bureaucratic process between fielding applications and actually hiring new officers.By their own acknowledgment, the new law...
By Keri BlakingerLos Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES — State regulators have accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of skipping inspections, neglecting maintenance and committing an array of “willful” safety violations that led to a 2023 mobile shooting range fire that killed one deputy, according to...
New England’s largest music festival is making its way back to Boston this year, and the iconic Boston Calling Music Festival is kicking off its eleventh year this Memorial Day weekend.Although cash may have been preferable a decade ago when the festival debuted, in 2024,...
A spacious historic house located at 135 Glen Road in Wellesley Hills has new owners. The 4,173-square-foot property, built in 1910, was sold on May 1, 2024. The $2,800,000 purchase price works out to $671 per square foot. This three-story house offers a spacious layout...
Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of violence against a child.The father of a 5-year-old New Hampshire boy whose body was found in Massachusetts in 2021 has filed a wrongful death suit against the boy’s mother, her boyfriend and the New Hampshire youth services departments.Elijah...
Testimony in the trial of Karen Read, a Mansfield woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, John O’Keefe, continues Friday at 9 a.m.Read, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of O’Keefe, who was found cold to the touch...
A 40-year-old woman who worked as an office manager at a Brookline medical practice pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud on Thursday in connection with a scheme to embezzle more than $650,000 from the practice, according to acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua...
Looking for a job? One place is hiring where your co-workers could be ghosts. The Conjuring house, the iconic haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where evil happenings inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring,” is hiring four new positions, according to a Facebook post. The positions...
After thunderstorms created muggy conditions amid above-average temperatures on Thursday, those headed to Boston Calling on Friday can expect less humid but still warm conditions throughout the day.The weekend-long festival opens its doors around 1 p.m. Friday ahead of the first performance of the day,...
